Re: Win2K Task Scheduler says running but it's not

From: David Frankenbach (sendnospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/16/05 

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:41:22 -0500

Roger,

Since this machine is a running process box as part of a much larger
network, no, we don't have automatic updates turned on. Machines go through
scheduled maintence cycles where updates are applied. I just checked the box
right now and there are no high priority updates to install. DirectX 9.0c
and Windows Media Player 9 are the only available updates to install and
they are not likely to ever be installed because this is a server not a
desktop machine. From the WindowsUpdate.log file the most recent updates it
went through updates were on 7/26, 8/17, 8/18, 8/29, 9/6, 9/13 and 9/16.
Everything since the 8/29 update have been our attempts to resolve this task
scheduler problem. Because the first failure to run that we had was the 9/3
run of the job.

How can I tell if the v2 rollup was applied?

The real task has a Run As user which is the same user that is always logged
into the machine.

When I run the exe from explorer it is running as the currently logged in
user.

Can you try setting up a brand new task to launch notepad, either schedule
it to run in a couple of minutes or right click and select run and see what
happens?

I'm not sitting at the machine itself it's in a server room in another
building, I connect to it via Remote Desktop from an XP Pro machine over our
network. I use the same user to connect to the machine I don't use my login.

I posted this same message in the universalthread.com before here and
another user in Australia has confirmed that since 8/29 his tasks are
failing in this same fashion.

df (MVP Visual FoxPro)

"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNoSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:eyvPfcvuFHA.3252@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Dave,
>
> Microsoft did not send out any patches at the end or August, nor any
> three weeks ago. There were patches on the second Tuesday of Aug,
> which was the 9th. If you patching schedule is a little lagging, then you
> may have also installed the W2k post SP4 Update Rollup at that time
> even though it was release mid-July.
> That v1 release of the rollup did have some issues, but I do not recall
> hearing of any issue similar to your description. A v2 release was made
> this Tuesday.
>
> On my W2k systems that are fully up-to-date patch-wise I am not
> experiencing issues with scheduled tasks (other than the GUI reporting
> of last result status still being blank, something that happened quite
> some time ago).
>
> Have you logged in with the account that is used for the scheduled task
> and run the exe ? I know you said you can run it without issue but it
> was not clear that was with the scheduled account.

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